Wedding Feast

“Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding feast of the Lamb.” Revelation 19:9

Sometimes we have the idea that heaven is a nice, quiet peaceful place where harps are playing and angels are flitting delicately around. Reading the Book of Revelation destroys that idea completely. St. John the apostle writes in the 19th chapter that he heard a sound of a vast crowd in heaven SHOUTING, “Hallelujah! Salvation is from our God. Glory and power belong to Him alone.” Again and again their voices rang, “Hallelujah!”. The shout of the huge crowd sounded like the roar of mighty ocean waves. “Let us be glad and rejoice!” 

These sounds of victory from a huge crowd reminds me of what happened yesterday in Araneta Coliseum when the UP Fighting Maroons beat the valiant Adamson Soaring Falcons. Before the win, the fighting was intense, and no one could predict the winner of the back and forth battle with several heart-stopping ties. I can imagine the saints and angels in heaven looking down at what is happening on earth. The stakes are high and there are small and big wars every where on the earth. But the battle is for hearts and minds and souls. If you see the battle on social media, there’s huge amounts of money funding fake news, misinformation and deception on a global scale. That’s just a small part of the battle. 

But just like today, we know UP won, we also know the good side will win against evil. What we have to make sure is we are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb because that is how we get into heaven and the victorious side. To get invited to the Feast, we have to know the Bridegroom, Jesus, and we have to prepare our attire, the finest white linen, which represents the good deeds of God’s people (Rev. 19:8).